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Global Climate Change DigestA Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone DepletionPublished July 1988 through June 1999

FROM VOLUME 2, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 1989

NEWSLETTERS

EarthQuest. Issued quarterly by the Office of
Interdisciplinary Earth Sciences (OIES) of the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research. Contains research program overviews, profiles of
participating university programs, report summaries and a calendar. The special
Spring 1989 issue (44 pp.) has 15 articles on global change and public policy;
Summer 1989 (16 pp.) focuses on interdisciplinary polar research. Available at
no charge from OIES, UCAR, POB 3000, Boulder CO 80307 (303-497-1683).

The Brundtland Bulletin is a publication of the Centre for
Our Common Future (Palais Wilson, 52, rue des Pâquis, CH-1201 Geneva,
Switz.; tel: (022) 732 71 17). The Centre promotes the goals of global
sustainable development put forth recently by the Our Common Future
report of the United Nation's World Commission on Environment and Development,
under the guidance of Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. It
coordinates activities of what the Centre refers to as the "Brundtland
constituency:" the United Nations system, governments and intergovernmental
associations, nongovernmental associations, media, youth, industry and trade
unions, and academic and financial institutions. The 100-page July 1989 issue of
the Bulletin summarizes activities of over 100 of these constituency
members, as well as activities coordinated by the Centre itself. These include a
70-country satellite broadcast in June involving world leaders and entertainers
to promote the sustainable development theme. About 20 pages begin a series of
profiles of constituency organizations, and a 10-page calendar lists upcoming
conferences.

Interaction is published several times a year by the Global
Tomorrow Coalition (1325 G St. NW, S. 915, Washington DC 20005; 202-628-4016),
an organization dedicated to fostering sustainable development. GTC is
organizing Globescope Pacific, the first major U.S. forum addressing the
Our Common Future report of the Brundtland Commission.

Atmószfera, a new quarterly newsletter started this
summer in Hungary by the National Meteorological Service and the Ministry for
Environment and Water Management, covers potential climate change, climate
variability, atmospheric pollution and related ecological and economic impacts.
Written in Hungarian, with an English-language special section on climate
variability and change, it is aimed at decision makers in the fields of
meteorology, hydrology, environmental and energy management, and agriculture.
The editors are Z. Iványi, T. Farago and J. Zákonyi, POB 38,
H-1525, Budapest, Hungary.